Can I run VMware products on a multi-processor host machine?
The VMware software will run on Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) systems, also technically referred to as Multi-Processor Specification (MPS) systems. However, the environment provided within each VMware virtual machine is a Uni-Processor (UP) system. Multiple concurrent VMware virtual machines will make use of the multiple processors in a system. The VMware software requires at least a Linux 2.2.x kernel to run on an SMP system and will fail with an error message on SMP systems running 2.0.x or 2.1.x kernels. With VMware products for Windows NT/2000/XP, the VMware software supports SMP kernels. The host OS will run its tasks on multiple processors dynamically (regardless of whether apps or one, two or more VMs are running at the same time). Keep in mind though that each VM runs as a single process on the host OS, so if you run a single VM on a dual processor machine, the performance will be only slightly higher then if you ran the same single VM on a single processor system. However, i
